Executive Committee

As defined in the bylaws, the Executive Committee acts on behalf of the Board between board meetings and is charged with oversight of administrative, financial, and management activities.


  1. Chris Helms Chris Helms, President

    Senior Collections Manager at Adler Planetarium

  2. Janet Northey Janet Northey, Vice President

    Senior Collections Manager at Anchorage Museum

  3. Sebastián E Encina Sebastián E Encina, Treasurer

    Associate Director of Curation & Exhibition at Minnetrista Museum & Gardens

  4. Sydney L Briggs Sydney L Briggs, Corresponding Secretary

    Director of Registration at American Federation of Arts

Our mission

The mission of ARCS is to represent and promote registrars and collection specialists, to educate the profession in best practices of registration and collections care, and to facilitate communication and networking.

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